With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

Familiarity breeds content

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial...

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Everything seems different now. The room I am in looks no more familiar to me than it did this morning when I woke up and stumbled into it, trying to find the kitchen, desperate for...

There’s no question that since (the Bears) have grown up with (the Trojans), … There’s a lot of familiarity with the people involved. That raises the attention level, because you’re playing with your peers.

[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow...

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years...

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only...

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art – be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.

To me, that’s one of the most revealing numbers in the survey because it says familiarity with gays and lesbians in your own life has a powerful influence over whether (you think) these couples should...

I don’t think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn’t tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and...

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You’ll see.

…their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. 

Non-professional investors tend to buy these well known companies because of their familiarity, yet such stocks are often overpriced. In this case, paying more for the brand may not provide an investment with a satisfactory...

His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a...

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider – without question – as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching...

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a...

In addition to extensive familiarity with complex coverage issues, I speak fluent Spanish, often an advantage in finding out what really happened. We are looking forward to handling an increasing number of claims out of...

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don’t know so much about stupidity.

The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may be so close as to be out of focus, and...

The familiarity, the routine, you don’t have that on the road. We’ve done a good job [7-3] at home. We need that now on the road.

When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second...

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, … a specialized location.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with whom we have familiarity? We hurt, offend and piss off the ones we...

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you’ve worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart...

It definitely helps to have a familiarity with their system and their personnel. I don’t think Gregg is trying to re-invent the wheel since I left. They are doing a lot of the same things...

Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ….

There’s a familiarity there. Taming of the Shrew is one of the top three Shakespearean plays in terms of popularity and Kiss Me, Kate is a very familiar title for most people, and it’s Cole...

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity – but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way...

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier – he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim...

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

when familiarity comes closer, go farther

Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in closeness to each other. That we had something to share...

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

When I work, I’m just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that’s not familiar. But I’m not trying to manipulate reality....

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can’t...

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

This will be a great test. It?s a division opponent, so there?s a lot of familiarity from the head coach right on down. This is a team that?s physical and has gone on the record...

It’s weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It’s like they’re friends or something.

Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to...

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!